Show nil GINNING OF THE mw i The Tor Mimstrvof Lngland have at ast l settled upon a policy Gladstone was right when ho told the assembled Commons that cither justice In a rea sonablc measure of homo rule for Iro l land or despotism in the enforcement of coercive measure was this only alternative alter-native left Coercion is the suicidal choice of tho doomed aristocracy of ngland Whom the gods wish to destroy thmey first mako mad Through prosecutions and prisons through 11 reign of terror backed up by bristling bayonets the titled class of England propose to take issuo with the people of Ireland and largely of England upon the question of homo rule It Is not for Ireland alone although I al-though that locality will bo the battleground battle-ground but n question for the whole Kingdom of Great Britain Many whoso sympathies are with Ireland upon the broad question of homo rule aj prcciato fully the ignorance the clannishness and fanaticism of portions of her population So far in the homo rulo struggle the destructive de-structive element has been kept m subjection sub-jection to the conservative and intelligent leadership of Tarnell and his lieutenants lieuten-ants If however coercion fines mind imprisonment confines the leaders while it lets loose amid Inflames their followers fol-lowers the result will probably bo vio lento and bloodshed This will react upon tho rory landlords and privilege classes who have voluntarily inaugurated the conflict out of which thmsy must coma tho greatest sufferers It is too hate m the histoi of tho lace for lovolutions to go backward In tho coming struggle between tho masses and privileged classes the latter must event itchy go to the wall But the conservation con-servation of manv admirable qualities the outgrowth of wealth of leisure and kindlv cultmo make it ibsolutcl necessary neces-sary that while extraordinary privileges are withheld and assumed right to govern gov-ern ignored tho paving trl < es of tin privileged class bo retimed in the inter cst of a Christian civilization Homo Hulo Is but one feature of the world wide struggle of right with might of freedom with privilege j ind in assuming assum-ing the ulness of coercion and violence tho picscnt Government of Great Britain clearly indicates tho beginning of then end I |